प्रियदर्शिका नाटिका (सम्राट हर्षवर्धन - चतुरङ्क शास्त्रीय नाटिका सान्वय सटीक)

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honorific epithet. उदयनोत्सवं—A festival instituted to cele-
brate the capture of Udayana or rather his marriage with
Vāsavadattā; or perhaps the reading may be अयं मदनोत्सव and
hence the order to go to मन्मथोद्यान. रूपस्य योग्य: अनुरूप: अनुरूपः वेषः
&c. प्रेक्षा—Representation.
भद्रे तदादिश्यतां—Here we expect the stage-direction (अन्तःपुरे
विलोक्य)
Śl. 4. नूपुरिभि —नूपुरौ एषां विद्येते इति नूपुरिणः तैः having anklets on.
Explain केयूरिभिः, कुण्डलिभिः, &c. similarly. नितम्बफलकैः—नितम्बा
फलकाः (broad and extensive) इव, or प्रशस्ता नितम्बाः नितम्बफलकाः;
Karm. comp. Words like फलक, पट, भित्ति (e. g कपोलभित्ति), &c.
express प्राशस्त्य or excellence when forming the second member of a
Karm. comp. शिञ्जान—tinkling; pre. p. of शिञ् 2 A. to sound
(like anklets). काञ्चीगुण—the girdle bands. आपादित—reduced,
generated सहस्वस्तिकैः—स्वस्तिक a kind of mystic diagram denoting
good luck and auspiciousness; स्वस्ति कायति इति स्वस्तिकः fr स्वस्ति+कै
to sound I P. and affix (अ); Pāṇ. III. 2-3. Hence anything like
a Sva., as a house, &c; here a kind of head-ornament; or a
particular symbol made with scented rice-flour and triangular
in shape. स्वस्तिकः मङ्गलद्रव्ये यत्तु तण्डुलचूर्णेननिर्मितत्रिकोणाकारनिवासद्रव्यमिति
कल्पद्रुम ।" Pandit Krishnamachariar. परिचारिका०—परिचारिकाः
the maids in immediate attendance on the queens एतेषु—scil.
अन्तःपुरेषु.
अपूर्वे—Because adornment of the person in the case of the
inmates of the harem was an ordinary thing.
केवलं &c.—The sentence may end with समादिष्टः; I was ordered
by the King because the royal command must be given; or the
constr. may be समादिष्टोऽहं स्वाम्यादेश इति मत्वा &c.
P. 33. वीणा—Popularly called Bīṇa or the Indian lute is a
stringed instrument with a large round hollow bowl, a body
of thin wood and a neck with tuning pegs and metallic strings,
and with a hollow gourd attached to it on the other side of the
body.
काञ्चनमाला—was the attendant of Vāsavadattā in the palace
of Mahāsena and followed her as her principal maid also after
her marriage with Udayana In the Garbhanāṭaka she herself
plays her own part गन्धर्वशाला—the same as the प्रेक्षागृह. प्रविशति
आसनस्था—प्रविशति is discovered, seated. See notes p. 24.
वीणाचार्यः—i e. Vatsarāja. एक उन्मत्तः—This undoubtedly refers
to Yaugandharāyaṇa, the devoted minister of Vatsarāja, who in